TAFTA ADVNACED Program

Now ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for MELB 2025 August Intake

A 17 WEEK program designed to challenge you and push your career to the next level.

Design for experienced, working actors.

The TAFTA Advanced Program is a 17-week intensive course designed for working and intermediate actors ready to take their careers to the next level. This program pushes actors to refine their craft, strengthen their industry knowledge, and expand their professional toolkit. To help strengthen their career in the Australian industry, while setting up the platform for an international career.

Actors work closely with currently working professionals receiving hands-on training, personalised feedback, and real-world insights. TAFTA’s adaptive, industry-driven approach ensures that participants are prepared for the ever-changing demands of the screen industry, from high-stakes auditions to complex character work.

This program is designed for actors with prior training and on-set experience who are ready to be challenged, grow creatively, and build a sustainable, global career.

Days

Monday and Wednesday

Times

6:30pm - 9:30pm

Do you fit the selection requirements?

Admission into the tafta Advanced program is by application and audition only.

Please contact us if you have any questions about the application process.

Course Requirements

Due to the advanced nature of this program, specific entry requirements apply.

Applicants must have completed a long-form acting course, such as TAFTA’s Part-Time Program or an equivalent level of training.

All prospective participants will be required to audition, either in person or via Zoom. Following the audition, a select group of actors will be invited to join the program based on suitability, skill level, and readiness for the course.

TAFTA Alumni’s will receive automatic acceptance.

 PRICE

The Advanced Program, 17 weeks of straight class time. This course is carefully structured to challenge and expand your tool box as an actor. This will help guide you in taking that next step into your career.

  • Eye Phrasing

    This unique class has been carefully crafted to teach you how to convey powerful and nuanced messages using only your eyes. Learn how to master stillness, subtlety, and intention to deliver impactful performances without relying on dialogue. Ideal for close-up work on camera and emotionally charged scenes.

    Master Class

    Push your craft to new heights in this intensive Master Class. Designed to challenge and refine your skills, this class encourages bold artistic choices, deeper emotional access, and greater vulnerability. You’ll be pushed out of your comfort zone, guided by top industry professionals to elevate your performance to a professional standard.

    Comedy Capers

    You will be given a scene, which you will learn how to be free in your performance. Learn how to play certain scenes and find the comedy aspects. Sticking to the guide of set up, set up, pay off.

    Advanced US Accent

    Perfect your General American accent for the U.S. market. This advanced dialect training focuses on precision, consistency, and confidence. You’ll work on fine-tuning pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation, as well as integrating the accent naturally into your character work.

    RP

    Expand your accent range with this foundational class in RP—the standard British accent often used in theatre and screen. Learn the key sounds, placement, and musicality of the accent, giving you a strong foundation for British roles and further UK accent development.

    Impulse and Instinct

    Building on the foundational work from John Orcsik’s Emotions 1 & 2, this advanced class helps you deepen your connection to emotional truth. Through refined breathing techniques and spontaneous response work, you’ll learn to trust your instincts and perform with greater authenticity and immediacy.

    Advanced Voice

    End the course with a deep dive into vocal transformation. This class helps expand your vocal range, explore different tonal qualities, and adapt your voice to suit various roles. Work on vocal strength, flexibility, and resonance to support a wide range of characters and emotions.

    Showreel and Studio Shoot Selection.

    *Class order will change depending on teacher availability.

  • We will work closely with you to carefully select scenes that best showcase your individual strengths and unique qualities as an actor. You will choose two scenes to be used for a studio shot scene, and two additional scenes that will be professionally filmed on location. In total you will be walking away with four scenes for your portfolio. *Filming locations will be confirmed at a later date.

  • Showreel Week, where your selected scene will be professionally filmed on location—giving you a polished, industry-standard piece to use as a calling card for future opportunities.


You’ve finished the course - now What?

Finally, you will undertake a professional showreel shoot, where you will receive a professionally shot and edited scene. You will also get the opportunity to crew on your fellow actors showreels, so you can get crucial hands-on experience of the entire filmmaking process, so you’ll be prepared when you get on set.

With your four new scenes, you will be able to put a nice shiny new package together to help you take the next steps in your career.

If you do not have representation or are looking to move agents, we can help guide a packages you in the right way. The TAFTA staff are available for advice and support in this exciting time.

Representation cannot be guaranteed, however, many TAFTA graduates have been successful at securing an agent both here in Australia and in America. 

What makes tafta different?

 

ON-CAMERA TRAINING FOCUS

Almost all of your training at TAFTA will be done in front of a camera - either in the studio or on location.

You will learn to find comfort in front of the lens, increase camera awareness, and practice the power of stillness, conveying a story with just a look, or even making wild physicality authentic and believable on screen.

You will get copies of all your footage every class so that you can assess your own performance in playback, and monitor your growth as an actor.

THE MODERN ACTOR

At TAFTA, we strongly believe the modern actor needs to be a multi-hyphenate, to create and capitalise on all opportunities in the industry.

At TAFTA we facilitate learning in other aspects of the Film & TV Industry. You will learn skills including screenwriting, producing, content creation, and crewing, so you can take your career in your own hands and aren’t waiting for the phone to ring.

On top of that, we encourage our students to explore other ways of being creative. Many of our alumni have gone on to write, produce, direct, and star in award-winning short films, plays and films!

THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR

TAFTA not only arms actors with the craft required to become a professional performer in the industry but also aids in developing personal strengths and the mental capacity to handle the hardships of the industry.

Working as an actor is a fulfilling, exciting, and rewarding career, but there will be many challenges along the way. With a team of actors behind the scenes at TAFTA, we will be there to support you every step of the way.

Upon graduation you are part of the TAFTA family - our door is always open if you need guidance along your acting journey. 

“TAFTA was definitely a really crucial part of my training. Through doing a tafta course I really learnt how to shake the whole performance”

— James Frecheville | Animal Kingdom, The Dry and Peaky Blinders

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